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Cheyenne Citizen’s Police Academy Planned
The Cheyenne Police Department is taking applications for it's next Citizen's Police Academy, according to spokesman Officer Dan Long.
He says the course will cover a wide range of topics related to police work, including such areas as criminal investigations, narcotics and crime scene processing
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Kaysen Backs Fuel Tax Increase
Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen says he supports a proposal in the state legislature to increase the gasoline tax by ten cents a gallon.
The mayor says highways and roads across the state are deteriorating, and notes that under the proposal local governments would receive part of the money raised for local infrastructure work. Kaysen says tha
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Lummis Predicts Budget Fight
Wyoming Republican Representative Cynthia Lummis is predicting a "real donnybrook" of a budget fight between Republicans and Democrats in congress in a couple of months when a proposal to raise the federal debt ceiling comes up for consideration
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Chamber Sees Widespread Growth
The Vice President of the Greater Cheyenne Chamber of Commerce says the city is seeing across the board growth in all areas of the community.
Kathy Steil says that while a few years ago growth was mostly concentrated in the northern parts of Cheyenne, that is no longer the case
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Council Awards Training Grant [AUDIO]
The Wyoming Workforce Development Council has awarded the newly-re-opened Saratoga Sawmill, now known as Saratoga Forest Management a $50,000 grant to train 22 workers. Joy Greenwald has a report. A comprehensive grant writing program will be offered at the Plains Hotel inn Cheyenne April 29-May 2. Amy Richards reports.
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Local Officials Sworn In
Newly elected members of the Cheyenne City Council and Laramie County Commission were officially sworn into office on Monday in seperate ceremonies.
Cheyenne Mayor Rick Kaysen was sworn into office for a second term Monday afternoon at the Cheyenne Civic Center by Wyoming Supreme Court Justice Micheal Davis
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Searing Industries Announces Steel Tubing Plant
Searing Industries of Rancho Cucumonga, California has announced plans to locate a 200,000 square foot facility in the Swan Ranch Rail Park near Cheyenne that will make steel tubing.
Cheyenne LEADS Executive Director Randy Bruns says the new plant should be up and running by mid-2013, and should initially create about 50 jobs in the Laramie County economy
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Rollover Crash Kills Two
Two Nebraska children were killed in a one-vehicle rollover Thursday on Interstate 80 on the east side of Laramie, according to Wyoming Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Steve Townsend.
He says the crash began shortly after 9:30am when a 2003 Ford F-150 pickup driven by 23 year old Edgar Carmona failed to negotiate a right hand curve in the eastbound lane of the interstate
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Rollover Crash Kills Two Near Laramie
Two Nebraska children were killed in a one-vehicle rollover Thursday on Interstate 80 on the east side of Laramie, according to Wyoming Highway Patrol spokesman Sgt. Steve Townsend.
He says the crash began shortly after 9:30am when a 2003 Ford F-150 pickup driven by 23 year old Edgar Carmona failed to negotiate a right hand curve in the eastbound lane of the interstate
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LCSD 1 Working to Improve School Monitoring
Laramie County School District 1 Superintendent Mark Stock says district officials have been working over the Christmas break to improve monitoring of older schools in the district.
Stock says newer school buildings are generally constructed in such a way that school officials can keep tabs on who is coming and going--in large part because the school offices are usually located near main entrances
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Fecht Disagrees With Animal Cruelty Rating
Cheyenne Animal Shelter CEO Bob Fecht says he doesn't think Wyoming deserves the low rating recently given to it for it's animal cruelty laws by a national group.
The Animal Legal Defense Fund recently included Wyoming in the lowest tier of states for it's laws protecting animals
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Ten DUI Arrests New Year’s Eve
Local authorities arrested 10 people for Driving Under the Influence in the Cheyenne area on New Year's Eve, according to Cheyenne Police Chief Brian Kozak.
Kozak says the joint effort included the Laramie County Sheriff's Department, Wyoming Highway Patrol and law enforcement from Wyoming State Parks